O'CLERY, CONOR

Melting Snow

Belfast, Appletree Press. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0862812917). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition First Printing. A near Fine uninscribed copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. During the early days of 'Perestroika' , the Irish Times sent the author, one of the best known and most respected journalists, to open a the first Irish newspaper bureau in Moscow. The book is a vivid account of his experiences, not just as a reporter and observer of the great events but also as a Kremlin watcher, cinemagoer, newspaper reader, shopper, man in the queue and devotee of Russia, it's language and people. A remarkably perceptive and readable account . A1D. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 002969

Catalogue: Irish Interest

Keywords: Moscow,Perestroika, Irish Times 0862812917

CRAIG, PATRICIA (EDITED BY)

The Oxford Book of Ireland

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1998, First. (ISBN: 0192142615). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine copy (Fine apart from a line mark to closed top edge) with Fine dutjacket which is not price clipped. Internally Fine and unmarked. xvi + 514 pages. 3 maps. First Edition, First Printing. Ireland is a country that arouses strong opinions: everyone has a view on its character, its foibles, its charm and its waywardness. It has inspired some of the best poetry and nurtured some of the best writers in the world, and in the book poets, novelists, artists, dramatists, historians, philosophers, peasants and aristocrats are brought together to celebrate and commemorate the nation and its people. Irish history lives more in the present than that of other countries, and there are constant reminders in these pages of past triumphs and tragedies, and their continuing impact on the national psych. Conquest, famine, emigration, the decline of the language, the struggle for identity and independence are all charted here. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.1 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST D4B. Near Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 011030

Catalogue: Irish Interest

Keywords: Irish History 0192142615

FITZPATRICK, NINA

Fables of the Irish Intelligentsia

London, Fourth Estate. 1991. (ISBN: 1872180280). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. Dubious miracles and confused morals are the stuff of the twelve fables in this entrancing book. The adorable father Boniface achieves sanctity despite a life of exalted sensuality, Sesame O'Hare, a frustrated academic, finds her true calling when she hijacks the career of the illustrious poet A.T. Harrington, Edmund Ignatius MacHugh, the guiding light of the Shambla Seekers, has a Celtic epiphany which dazzles a wealthy American lady but fails to impress the disgruntled locals. Irresistibly funny and full of ticklish ironies, the author leads the reader a merry dance through a world whose hybrid inhabitants take liberties with accepted notions of sanity, intelligence and normality. C3A. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 004979

Catalogue: Irish Interest

Keywords: Humour, Irealnd 1872180280

GEBLER, CARLO

The Bull Raid - a Free Version of the Irish Prose Epic Táin Bó Chuailgne or Cattle Raid of Cooley

London, Egmont. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 1405212551). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. ix + 403 pages. The book is a re-telling of the narrative given in the ancient Irish prose epic, Táin Bó Chuailgne or Cattle Raid of Cooley. This is the most famous and extensive of the legends of Cúchulainn and is the story of the war fought over the Brown Bull of Cooley (Cualgne). the story of two bulls of the Sidhe (the race of immortals). The bulls themselves were immortal and had been transformed from other forms and origins. First they were the swineherds of the gods Bodb (King of the Sidhe of Munster) and Ochne (King of the Sidhe of Connaught). The two swineherds were in rivalry with one another, changing shape in pursuit of their endless quarrel. They became ravens and battled for a year, then they changed to water creatures, then they changed to human champions and then finally into eels. One of these magical eels swam into the River Cruind in Cualgne in Ulster and was swallowed by a cow belonging to Daire of Cualgne. The other swam into the spring of Uaran Garad, in Connaught, where it was swallowed by a cow belonging to Queen Medb. From these origins were born two bulls, the Brown Bull of Ulster, and the White Horned Bull of Connaught. L. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 007755

Catalogue: Irish Interest

Keywords: Táin Bó Chuailgne, Legend of Cúchulainn, King of the Sidhe of Munster, Irish Prose Epic, Queen Medb, Cattle Raid of Cooley, Connaught 1405212551

REILLY, FRANCES

Suffer the Little Children - the Harrowing True Story of a Girl's Brutal Convent Upbringing

London, Orion. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780752875462). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. Clutching their eight week-old sister in their arms, three-year-old Frances and six-year-old Loretta Reilly were abandoned by their mother outside the gates of the Poor Sisters of Nazareth Convent in Belfast in 1956. This is Frances' story of survival, how she suffered horrifically in the charge of the convent sisters, living with daily brutal and bloody beatings, she was treated like a slave, a child worker to be abused, and an orphan to be raped and molested. The convent regime stripped her of everything - an education, her innocence, and her childhood. Frances fought a decade-long court case against the Poor Sisters of Nazareth order to bring to account the nuns who so viciously ruined the lives of many. C3C. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 008292

Catalogue: Irish Interest

Keywords: Irish Convent Brutality, Poor Sisters of Nazareth, Dublin 9780752875462

TAYLOR, ALICE

To School Through the Fields - a Country Childhood

London, Century. 1991, First Thus. (ISBN: 0712648739). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Previously published separately in 1990 as 'To School Through the Fields' and 'Quench the Lamp' in paperback. The author was born in 1938 and grew up at Lisnasheoga, her family's farm in County Cork and when she married she moved to Innishannon where she now lives and runs the local supermarket and post office. She recounts a marvellous world of her youth, a delightful evocation of Irishness, a sory of bucolic life in an earlier time, with it's rituals of religion and the antics of local characters. NOT EX LIB NOT BOOK CLUB C3B. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 002800

Catalogue: Irish Interest

Keywords: Irish Bucolic Life, Innishgannon 0712648739

JACKSON, JOHN WYSE WITH COSTELLO, PETER

John Stanislaus Joyce - the Voluminous Life and Genius of James Joyce's Father

London, Fourth Estate. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 1857024176). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xvii + 494 pages. Map endpapers. Genealogical chart. 42 illustrations. Dustjacket has a small closed tear to front top corner and is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. John Stanislaus Joyce was the hero of his own epic - a heroic drinker, superlative swearer and 'praiser of his own past', with ambitions to become a Parnellite MP. He was a Corkman who became the quintessential Dubliner and was the father of at least 16 children, almost all of whom he tried to ignore. A nightmare to those children he denied, he was an inspiration to to the imagination of his first surviving son, James, who admitted that his father gave him 'hundreds of pages and scores of characters' in his books. NOT EX LIB A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.95 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST D4A. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 007774

Catalogue: Irish Interest

Keywords: James Joyce, Dublin, Ireland, Irish Biography 1857024176